After emerging kde 3.1.2, accents stopped working. The layout I use is Brazilian (abnt2), but the same error was find with US English with DeadKeys(us_intl). Checking the .xsession-errors file I discovered the following line: kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: init_keyboard_layout which I believe is related to the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
*** Bug 22418 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I believe you need to specify LC_CTYPE, but that should be an xfree issue, not KDE. In any case, try if that works
Gtk programs are working correctly. Mozilla running on KDE is not but I didn't test the program in Gnome environment.
Please try 3.1.4 and see if it's still a problem. it may be an issue with some setting in xfree as well. Please reopen if the problem persists.